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Dear reader, My year will be focussed on helping you to design your business. In every aspect of our mutual entrepreneurial journey. Being an entrepreneur isn’t just something we like, it’s something we are. What we love to do. Digital tools are liberating business design, but so are people. We have become participants on social platforms …

There’s a method to determine if a brand communicates the right identity. To put it in a simple way: Identity is what your brand stands for, from the inside out. Image is what your audience perceives as your identity, from the outside in. These two need to match as closely as possible. Many brands are …

In the past year I’ve been following a lot of online entrepreneurs. It’s not very hard to find them these days. Just click on one advertisement in your Facebook timeline or in Google and the algorithms will show you all the others on related topics. Be careful though, not to develop a tunnel vision driven …

I guess this question is not be answered so easily. It depends on where you are in life, in business and on your current conditions. There are a lot of personal circumstances that are of influence. However let's give it a shot if we can find a route, a roadmap to rethink reality in a …

Meet Nora Daidone. During her career in tourism she decided to go back to school. To learn calligraphy as she always had a feeling inside she should do something else with her life. For one year she travelled every weekend to Paris to study the art and craftsmanship. Started up her own calligraphy business besides her regular …

All entrepreneurs have something in common, in one statement: "My personality is reflected in my company." There has been done research on their companies and therefore made much clear reference to the standards, values, motivations, personal preferences, needs and aspirations of these entrepreneurs as regards entrepreneurship, their organization and their way of doing business. The …

In November last year I came to Nice. My old Amour. Since that day I've met so many new people, made new friends, truly reconnected with old friends and started up my new initiative DBA. So this is a story on how everything is always magically wonderful? Well, actually it is not. It was a …

Meet Mitchell. According to Mitchell Weijerman, the founder of the Digital Nomad Accelerator, the rise of digital nomads has just begun. A lifestyle that replaces the traditional career path in the corporate world. Innovation in our working lives is driven bottom-up. Nomads design their ideal business models and lifestyle all at once, themselves. Improved technology, a …

Meet Olivier Francheteau. As a child he changed all the posters in his bedroom every month. He already understood there was more to decoration, more to explore. His passion had begun. What do you enjoy? In a typical workweek, what do you look forward to doing? I enjoy every day because there is no routine …

Last Tuesday last I did another workshop on rethinking your freelance business in collaboration with Nice Nomads. Every single time I get blown away by the energy and creativity in these workshops. In this episode we were downstairs at La Ruche in 21Paysans. Inspiring places to be in! This group consisted of a sales representative, …